Wayne Bethard: 7 books

Sooner or later, everyone meets the undertaker---that final contact with the hereafter. His mere mention sends chills up the spine; the image is always there, hidden on the back walls of our minds: a tall, hunkered figure, gaunt and pale of face, cold hands, black suit, deep voice. Stories about him...

All the Pleasures is a Contemporary Novel that sweeps you casually into the lives of two lonely people. It is a love story about two older, young lovers who find each other and come of age in a struggling modern day rancher's society. The narrative begins in the late nineteen nineties and progresses...

Inspired by true events, Proud Flesh is the story of a young man named Drew Darby who grew up in the turbulent times of Civil War reconstruction. Bound and determined to live the life of a dime novel hero, he leaves his existence as dirt farmer to fashion his dream. The world he discovers is not the...

The annals of Comanche history may never be written. Being a vast mass of tradition and imagination, facts travel from tongue to memory over land and time. Throughout the ages men of fact can live their lives within their own physical existence yet have their celebrity run rampant across campfires,...

Seventeen year old Samantha Evers gets captured by a band of Comanche. She undergoes a grueling beating which she survives. Bound and determined to escape she tries several times without success. She gradually becomes accustom to the Indian way and undergoes a transformation from captive to accecpted member of the band.

March 1888. Northeast Texas. President Grover Cleveland faces off againstBenjamin Harrison in Washington, the worst snowstorm in history ragesacross the central United States, the Indian Wars are over, the TexasLonghorn, long the staple of cattleman, is being replaced by the morebeefy Hereford, and...

Young Catipo of Taposa never thought of himself as a hero. Smaller than others his age, shunned by his elders, and looked down on for his meekness, he dreamed of someday becoming a great Quapaw warrior. Under the wing of an old medicine man he's chosen to receive the gifts of the upper world...